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Update
I haven't kept my adoring public (yeah right) updated since I have moved to Austin. I think I really enjoy Austin. I like having my own apartment although it is a bit empty. Anyone want to donate a nice used couch and kitchen table and chairs? At least if anyone in the Austin area knows of any good deals (at a particular garage sale or thrift store or the like), let me know.
Work
I enjoy working at Roxor Games. I have my own office, and that is sadly lacking in wall adornment. I just need to pick the right posters for my wall. I'm thinking either some spacescape such as a picture of the moon and the Earth or of one of the nebulae or something. I currently have a huge whiteboard sitting on the floor of my office; I think it might be for my office. I have a fairly decent dual-boot Linux-Windows 2000 x86 desktop and an old Wallstreet Powerbook running Mac OS X 10.3 sitting on my desk. I also use my own Pismo Powerbook running Debian Linux for all but the x86/Windows/Mac OS X specific development and testing tasks. The work is good, though I am feeling a bit overwhelmed as I expected. The transition to full-time work has been a bit difficult as anticipated. I hope I am not expecting too much but it seems very hard to get everything done that I need to. Hopefully I will grow to better understand how to handle my various tasks and feel like I am making progress.
Random Bits
As usual, I have had bits and pieces of various ideas on my mind lately. I'm always seeking for tools to help me be a better person and do my job better. I need to proceed with the stalled work on Informant. It's for my own sanity. My habits of focus and concentration are highly erratic and keep me from my full potential. If I have Informant set up and monitoring those things that I care about, I think that would give me the peace of mind to allow my attention to be where it probably should be.
I also have a great desire to get some content and a decent design on my website. I have long toyed with the idea of using Nevow, but just haven't seemed to have got the motivation to figure out what exactly I want/need to do. Lately, however, I have started considering using Muse. It actually seems to be a bit easier to figure out for my purpose, since I really don't need dynamic stuff, just templating.
Additionally, deeptape has shown me Personal Organizer that he uses to keep track of a lot of different kind of information. He has notes, logs, journals, etc. from a few years, IIRC. It made me realize I really don't have any organized way that I use to keep track of information that I might one day need to easily access. I'm not sure what I want to use to capture and organize things. I have been using Emacs Planner Mode for planning, scheduling, and journal writing for the last couple of months, though probably not as much as I should. Since it is based upon Emacs Wiki Mode, it is naturally fitted for organizing and linking data. Also, with the addition of planner-remember.el, I can just simply hit the key I have bound to (remember) in Emacs and it will pop up a buffer where I can take quick notes. Hit C-c C-c and it will save that on my page and I can link to or organize it later. But I somehow want to integrate bookmarks and other things into this somehow. I probably should take some time to write and brainstorm about what I wish to accomplish.
I should wrote more rambles more often to get these ideas out.
